Location Lighting
Pack your speedlites and portable flash: this section is all about bringing artificial lighting on location to achieve results that wouldn’t be possible with available light alone. You’ll learn how to make daylight turn into night-time, freeze BMX-riders mid-air and light up snow and smoke for beautifully atmospheric portraits.
Lights, Fans and a Seriously Fit Spin Class Instructor
The creative part of a portrait photographer’s job is to look beyond the obvious shot and create something that makes people look twice because it ...
Lighting Up An Ancient Lecture Theatre For A Science-Themed Portrait
This shot was about fire, camera and action, as part of a commercial commission to create a visually striking portrait of a chemistry lecturer. The...
Lighting The Snow For A Night-Time Kiss In Winter
This is one of my most popular portraits: the drama of the red dress and wintry weather mixed with the anticipation of The Kiss makes for an eye-ca...
Creating Hero Portraits
Using a low camera angle to make your subject the ‘hero’ in your portraits, and underexposing a bright sky for a more moody and atmospheric bac...
Horror-Inspired Fashion Portrait
Stylised portraits can be the most fun to create, especially if you enjoy overcoming technical challenges. For this shot, I needed to make a bright...
Opaque Smoke & Background Bokeh
How to backlight smoke so it becomes opaque, and using a slow shutter speed to capture background lights as out-of-focus circles (bokeh) in your po...
Environmental Chef Portrait
Sometimes you’ve got loads of light sources, stuff everywhere and very little time: this is the world of environmental portraits, & here’s my a...
Rembrandt Portrait Lighting
There are locations for portraits everywhere – even in an alleyway. This is how I created a dramatic shot in a local alley by overpowering the ambi...
Including Flash Heads In The Portrait
99.9 per cent of the time, I don’t want my portable flash units to be in the final image. In this instance, however, I kept them within the frame t...
Lighting An Outdoor Action Shot
This comic book-inspired action portrait was taken for my local junior football team. Here’s how I used two portable flashes to create dramatic l...